The idea of using cameras as game devices has been around for a while now but as penetration of capture devices reaches 100+ % [do you carry a digital camera and a cameraphone? I seem to] we're inevitably going to see more and more applications for them - something that was neatly evinced this morning by two emails I got back to back.
One was about this new spot [from The Glue Society [who are awesome]] for the Lumix Battle - a new campaign running in Thailand the pits teams of players against each other in photo fights. [More]
And the other concerned rumours of one of the first games being developed for Google's new mobile platform Android: WiFi Army - where players hunt each other across the urban landscape looking to snag sneaky pics on their camera phone, which are then uploaded and checked against a database of players for points. [More]
There are going to be loads more - cameras phones are the first devices to easily enable a visually augmented reality.
Thanks to Faris for the above.
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Camerassassins
Sunday 13 January 2008
Lofi Greenscreen
Saturday 12 January 2008
Lofi greenscreen on the move - so much opportunity with a little foresight.
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Blu animation
Friday 4 January 2008
excellent fresh form of stop motion animation by an artist going by the name of Blu, check his blog here BluBlu
first checked on crackunit
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Street Spirt
Thursday 3 January 2008
....so in the spirt of things radiohead, another one of my all timers directed by Jonathan Glazer. notice the little reference to this promo in the scotish mist film.
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Radiohead's Scotish Mist
radiohead scotish mist
great way to have seen the new year in with an exclusive courtesy of current tv - radiohead unleasing a 'film' titles scotish mist which is basically them playing through their new album 'in rainbow' with a few interesting visual and vo's as track buffers.
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